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September 2022 - Government Computers, Police Evidence, General Surplus & More
Assorted police evidence, surplus computers and office equipment selling for Colorado Cities, Counties and Police Departments. Auction Includes iPhones, iPads, Microsoft Surface Tablets, Bicycles, Power Tools, Generators, Janitorial Equipment, Jewelry, Currency, IT Equipment and Electronics, Shop Equipment and Much More!
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Assorted police evidence, surplus computers and office equipment selling for Colorado Cities, Counties and Police Departments. Auction Includes iPhones, iPads, Microsoft Surface Tablets, Bicycles, Power Tools, Generators, Janitorial Equipment, Jewelry, Currency, IT Equipment and Electronics, Shop Equipment and Much More!
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This past Saturday was the long anticipated Christie Antique Show - one of the biggest in Canada with over 300 vendors. The day was a little hot but much better than earlier in the week.
It was my first time going to a big antique show and I have to say I was a little disappointed as I thought the prices were on the high side. I think I must be more of a thrift store kind of girl as those prices seem to suit me better. I still had fun though and spent a couple of hours taking in all the antiques.
There were tons of Canadiana things, including skis, tobaggans, and snow shoes which seemed funny since it is almost summer.
This huge clock and the pretty signs were favourites of mine.
I loved this booth with all the red and white kitchen things.
I only purchased three things - something for a giveaway (more about that later), an over-priced greeny-blue mason jar without the lid, and a wooden box (you can see it below in the lower left-hand corner).
And here it is at home on our front porch.
I heard the seller saying he made the lid and some repairs using boards that he had around and he stained it and varnished it, so I knew it wasn't a valuable antique. Which was fine by me because I wanted it to solve a problem we have on our front porch.
We do not have an inside door to the garage and must go all the way around and open the big garage doors to put garbage into the garbage cans. Sooo what often happens is that we toss a tied up bag of garbage onto the front porch if we don't have our shoes on, or it is raining, or ... you get the idea. There is often a bag of garbage on our front porch waiting for the next person to go out to the garage, so I got this box to -um, cough, cough - hide the garbage in.
Are you as appalled as the rest of my family was when I told them what I was planning on using this pretty box for? Sorry about that, but at least our front porch will look tidy now.


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Duck Estate-Planning Fiascos Before it's Too Late
Dying is generally an unpredictable event, but planning for your passing can make it easier for everyone. That is, unless estate planning goes terribly wrong.
Unfortunately, unless an error or bad plan comes to light while you're still alive and kicking, it can turn into a mega-problem after it's too late.
Estate planning mistakes can be made by an expert, or they can occur if you fail to communicate your intentions and plans to everyone involved.
Estate Planning Mistakes by Professionals
Not knowing what you don't know makes a foray into the dense and specialized field of estate planning difficult for the uninitiated. If your attorney suggests something that ultimately harms the estate, how would you know?
Case in point: A lawsuit filed recently in Chicago alleges that a very high-profile estate planning attorney suggested that a client do a 60-day rollover with an inherited individual retirement account in order to satisfy taxes owed on the estate.
Anyone who deals with inherited IRAs should know this is absolutely not allowed. And the Internal Revenue Service will not allow the mistake to be remedied by a redo. Beneficiaries are on their own in seeking some sort of redress from the lawyer who gave them the bad advice in the first place -- hence the above-mentioned lawsuit.
Mistakes involving inherited IRAs typically occur after death -- after all, they can't be inherited until that point. However, plenty of estate planning mistakes occur while the testator, or the person doing the planning, is still in the pink.
Susan Wilkes of Clearwater, Fla., found that out when she hired an attorney to create a trust to protect her minor daughter. When she went to revise the trust six years later, she discovered that the pricey attorney she initially hired had made a mistake.
"She left the bulk of my trust to my minor daughter 'fee simple,' meaning that if I died, my financially irresponsible ex-husband, as my daughter's guardian, would receive a check for the large residual balance of my trust," says Wilkes.
Fee simple in this situation indicates that the inheritance would be given outright to the child. "Should the mother of the child die prior to the child becoming an adult, the father of the child, and ex-spouse, would be likely appointed as guardian of the child's inherited property until the child became an adult," says Ann Jakabcin, an attorney and principal at Stein Sperling in Rockville, Md.
Cash-Deficient Estate Plans
In the case of the mishap with the inherited IRA, things may have gone differently if the estate had the cash to settle up with the tax man without liquidating assets.
That is another common difficulty in estate planning -- particularly with the popularity of transfer-on-death accounts. Joint accounts, beneficiary designations on insurance policies and transfer-on-death provisions on bank accounts all let assets jump over the probate process and land directly into the hands of the inheritor.
"That simplifies the distributions of those assets, but it may leave the executor of the estate no liquidity to pay taxes or that final income tax bill or doctor bills when you have designated beneficiaries on all of your liquid asset accounts," says Jakabcin.
In cases where the estate does not have the liquidity to pay bills or taxes, beneficiaries or heirs may have to come up with the money themselves. "Sometimes we have to see if we can allow the recipient of the IRA to loan money to the executor to pay bills. Credit card companies may be out of luck because there may be no ability for that creditor to go after the beneficiary for unpaid credit card bills, but taxes are another situation," she says.
The IRS can come after anyone involved, from the executor to the transferee -- the person receiving the assets.
Consider All the Angles
Good estate planning should account for every contingency: What happens if the mother dies first; what happens if the father dies first; what happens if both parents die at the same time, and then the minor children die; or just one parent plus the kids die? All sorts of terrible things happen, and bad estate planning compounds the tragedy.
Do-it-yourself and store-bought wills often lack this perspective and foresight. For instance, after going through a wild time in her life, a woman had a baby with a disreputable man, a drug dealer by trade, according to the court system that convicted him. After having the baby, the woman woke up, took charge of her life and was promptly killed in a car accident. She died instantly at the accident; her son expired 12 hours later.
"Her will said, 'If I'm gone, everything goes to my son.' Not in trust, not with somebody protecting him from the assets until he was in his late 20s or so, but it all went directly to him. The problem was, she had over a $1 million wrongful-death claim on her life, filed by her family. There was another on the son, both of which paid off," says John J. Scroggin, a business, tax and estate planning attorney in Roswell, Ga.
The only intestate heir of the infant was his father. (Intestate refers to the circumstance of dying without a will.)
"For the short time the son survived the mother, by her will, all of her assets passed directly to him, including her wrongful death claim. His own wrongful death claim was added to his mother's bequeathed assets, and because there was no trust for the son, 100% of the assets passed to the drug convict," Scroggin says.
If there had been a trust in place to pass assets to the son, the mother's assets would have passed back to her family. Not so for the money from the wrongful death claim on the son's life. According to Scroggin, the father would have gotten 100% of the son's assets.
Had the mother survived the son by any amount of time, the son's wrongful death claim would have been equally split by the mother and father, and all of the mother's assets would have passed to her family members as her sole intestate heirs.
No one can divine what will happen in the future, but professionals should be able to map out a plan that accounts for nearly every possibility.
Failure to Communicate
Any estate plan of any size can go catastrophically wrong -- particularly if no one knows you've taken steps to leave something for heirs.
"We had a client whose father had a massive stroke. His kids swooped down into the town he was in, divided up all of his furniture and brought Dad back to a nursing home here in Atlanta. They didn't bother to look through any of his papers or anything else and closed down his bank account, closed down his mail and just shut everything down," says Scroggin.
Following the father's death months later, the client and siblings went through their father's papers and found a life insurance policy worth $1 million. Their first incredulous question was, "Is this worth anything?"
"We checked on it, and it had been. Dad was having his account debited every month to pay for the life insurance, and when the payment stopped because the bank account got closed, the insurance company sent a letter to the address they had. The letter got returned because there was no forwarding on the address, and they lost a million dollars," Scroggin says.
Trying to Please Everyone
Even if all the i's are dotted and t's are crossed, things can still go badly. Often, it's the little things that permanently derail plans and family relationships.
Items of sentimental value can cause serious rifts among the bereaved. Experienced estate planners recommend that the person doing the planning -- known as the testator -- communicate with heirs ahead of time to spell out what everyone will get when they die and how they can come to equitable agreements on cherished objects.
"I had two brothers one day shouting at each other in their mother's kitchen about a yellow Tweety Bird figurine that had sat in the kitchen for 50 years. And I'm going, 'Guys, I'll buy one on eBay, and I won't tell you which is the original because it is only going to cost a buck-fifty,'" says Scroggin.
Larger bequests, of course, are fraught with rivalry and envy as well. It's not at all uncommon for heirs to waste the entire value of the estate fighting over what someone else inherited. At that point, the estate and the family relationships are gone.
"It's a double-edged sword; people don't want to communicate what property is going to be given because it could cause animosity. It may cause animosity now, but you can deal with it. Later on, you have no control of it because you are gone," says attorney Senen Garcia, founder of SG Law Group in Coconut Grove, Fla.
Talking about death and dying is not something that comes naturally to most families. But communicating your plans and the intentions behind them could prevent estate planning mistakes and save everyone heartache and money.
Copyright 2013, Bankrate Inc.


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The editors over at Refinery29 claim to have spoken with Kate Moss' hairstylist and are now able to confirm rumors that the enduring supermodel will be gracing the cover of Playboy next January. This might be a more exciting scoop if we didn't feel like we've already seen it all when it comes to Kate Moss (see the video above).
That's not taking anything away from her — after all, she's been a staple of the industry for decades for a reason. She's got a unique look that lends itself to all sorts of shoots, has been a spokesperson for dozens of companies and has been covered by the tabloids as much as any high-profile superstar.
Are you guys excited at the prospect of seeing a sexy Playboy cover with Kate Moss?


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There is a page which tests all the latest resamplers against each other:
dBpoweramp is listed, along with other popular resamplers.
To interpret the results, a single line with no red / blue lines behind is the highest quality that can be expected, dBpoweramps result is a single line. Compare this to Sony Vegas 9.0, which in our opinion is not of a high quality:
Phase plot, dBpoweramp is very close to zero induced phase offset right across the board:
Finally transition testing, again dBpoweramp is very close to the ideal:


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WIMBLEDON, England – Roger Federer overcame a two-set deficit Friday at Wimbledon to avoid his earliest Grand Slam exit since 2004.
The six-time champion found himself two points from defeat on six occasions but survived a tense fourth-set tiebreaker and beat Julien Benneteau in the third round, 4-6, 6-7 (3), 6-2, 7-6 (6), 6-1.
"It was a tough match," Federer said. "Oh my God, it was brutal. Obviously, a bit of luck, maybe, on my side. Who knows? But I tried hard. I fought 'til the very end."
Federer avoided the fate that befell nemesis Rafael Nadal 24 hours earlier on the same Centre Court. Nadal, a two-time champion, made his quickest exit from a major since 2005 when No. 100-ranked Lukas Rosol beat him in five sets Thursday.
Benneteau had won his past four five-set matches, but this time he was the wearier player at the end, twice requiring thigh massages from a trainer for cramps during the fifth set. Federer cracked a forehand return winner into the corner to break for a 3-1 lead and pulled away from there.
A hobbling Benneteau appeared in tears before the final point, and he dumped his last shot in the net. Fans roared as a grinning Federer gave them a triumphant wave.
"He proved he is great. The greatest," Benneteau said. "Mentally he's a rock. He's two sets down, and he doesn't show anything."
Federer also erased a two-set deficit to beat Juan Martin del Potro in this month's quarterfinals at the French Open. He has mounted eight comebacks from down 0-2 in his career.
"The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you," Federer said. "You don't have, obviously, many lives left out there. You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there."
The No. 3-seeded Federer seeks to match Pete Sampras' modern record of seven Wimbledon championships. He has been stalled for 2½ years at a record 16 Grand Slam titles, but Nadal's departure improves his chances next week.
Federer has reached at least the quarterfinals at a record 32 consecutive major tournaments.
Top-ranked Novak Djokovic earlier mounted a more modest comeback to beat Radek Stepanek 4-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-2.
When a drizzle delayed the start of the third round, tournament officials decided Djokovic's match should be played inside. An odd spectacle ensued: The roof closed as the sun came out and outside court covers came off.
"I was a little bit surprised, when I saw sunshine, that the roof is closed," the defending champion said. "Obviously they're relying on a forecast that I don't think is very reliable here. But OK."
Djokovic missed opportunities to seize an early lead, failing to convert his first five break-point chances before he lost serve at love to drop the opening set. But he dominated from there, breaking in the first game in each of the final three sets.
Also advancing to the second week was top-ranked Maria Sharapova. She rallied from a break down in the second set to beat Hsieh Su-wei 6-1, 6-4.
American Sam Querrey hit the last of his 21 aces on match point and beat No. 21-seeded Milos Raonic, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (7), 7-6 (8), 6-4. That second-round match had been suspended in the third set Thursday because of rain.
Kim Clijsters led 6-3, 4-3 when No. 12 Vera Zvonareva retired with a respiratory infection. The unseeded Clijsters, who plans to retire after the U.S. Open, is a four-time Grand Slam seeking her first berth in a Wimbledon final.
"It's a pleasure to be a part of the second week of a Grand Slam, especially at Wimbledon," she said.
Americans Sloane Stephens and Christina McHale were eliminated in the third round. The 19-year-old Sloane Stephens was beaten by Sabine Lisicki 7-6 (5), 1-6, 6-2, and the No. 28-seeded McHale lost to No. 8 Angelique Kerber 6-2, 6-3.
No. 3 Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Britain's Heather Watson under the roof, 6-0, 6-2.
Because of the daylong rain threat, Federer's match was played with the roof closed. The No. 29-seeded Benneteau broke in the ninth game to seize the lead, and rallied from a break down in the second set, taking advantage of a blown overhead by Federer on a key point to reach 4-all.
In the next game, Benneteau cracked a return winner, and the Frenchman shouted, "Allez!"
Federer, who speaks six languages, responded with a service winner and also hollered, "Allez!"
Benneteau wobbled serving at 5-6 in the second set, double-faulting twice and blowing an overhead. The score went to deuce seven times, but he managed to hold with the help of several big serves.
"He played so well," Federer said. "He was making me doubt, obviously, for most of the match. That's a credit to him. He played amazing, I thought."
Benneteau whacked two aces in the tiebreaker, and at that point nothing seemed to be going Federer's way. He even went 0 for 4 in the set requesting relay reviews.
The comeback began quickly, with Federer racing to a 4-love lead in the third set, but the fourth set was more difficult. Benneteau was two points from an upset for the sixth and final time at 6-all in the tiebreaker, but he hit a backhand long and a forehand into the net.
Federer skipped to his chair, relieved to be still in contention at Wimbledon.


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Pakistani tribesmen organize private armies to fight Taliban
Pakistan's Taliban might be getting stronger, wreaking havoc along the country's border with Afghanistan, but they are also growing wildly unpopular, inciting their own tribesmen to turn against them.
In the latest of a series of incidents, a lashkar, or private army comprised of Pakistani tribesmen, torched the houses of Taliban commanders in Bajaur, near the Afghan border, vowing to fight them until they are expelled, the Daily Times, a Pakistani newspaper, reports.
Tribesmen in Bajaur Agency's Salarzai tehsil on Sunday formed a private army (lashkar) of around 30,000 people against the local Taliban. A local jirga decided to form the lashkar in the wake of the increasing presence of the local Taliban in the area. The lashkar torched 14 houses, including the house of a local Taliban commander. Tribal elder Malik Munsib Khan, who heads the lashkar, said tribesmen would continue their struggle until the Taliban were expelled from the area, adding that anyone found sheltering Taliban militants would be fined one million [rupees] and his house would be torched. The tribesmen also torched two important centres of the Taliban in the area and gained control of most of the tehsil.
Dawn, another English-language daily in Pakistan, cited the lashkar at a much lower number.
The tribe has raised a lashkar of more than 4,000 volunteers. Malik Munasib Khan, who is leading uprising against the militants, said that the houses destroyed by the volunteers included one of militant leader Naimatullah, who had occupied several government schools and converted them into seminaries.
The development comes in the midst of the Pakistan Army's bombardment campaign, which has been unfolding for weeks in the tribal agency of Bajaur, a militant stronghold where some top commanders of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, including Osama bin Laden, are believed to be hiding. The bombardment, which has left some 400 militants dead according to The New York Times, highlights the rising power of the Taliban some seven years after they were first ousted from power in Afghanistan. But it also showcases why the Taliban are highly unpopular: Some 200,000 people have been displaced because of fighting, while dozens of citizens have been killed in clashes between the militants and military.
The Bajaur lashkar might be the largest of its kind, but it is not the only such force to have turned against the Taliban, according to recent reports. The News, a leading Pakistani daily, reported two weeks ago that several such lashkars have arisen throughout the North West Frontier Province, where the Taliban are increasing their hold.
In an unprecedented development, an armed lashkar in Buner district recently hunted down and killed six militants allegedly involved in killing cops in Kingargali. The operation shows that the people of Buner, Dir Upper and Dir Lower have stood up against the Taliban militants sneaking into these hitherto peaceful areas after Bajaur and Swat military operations.
A grand jirga of the elders of Maidan area in Lower Dir district's headquarters, Timergara, asked more than 150 foreign fighters and their tribal Taliban supporters to leave the area or face strong action from the local people.
A similar jirga in Barawal, a town of Dir Upper district, sharing border with Afghanistan, warned the militants to stay away from the area or they would take up arms against them.
The Buner incident took place on Khel Mountain in Shalbandai when hundreds of local people picked up arms, locally called 'Appa,' on information of the presence of the Taliban militants, who had brutally killed eight policemen in Kingargali last Friday.
The armed lashkar of 200 locals threw a cordon around the militants and asked them to surrender but the Taliban challenged it. The official sources told The News that the militants' refusal triggered a gunfight and they hurled hand grenades at the lashkar, prompting a retaliatory action from local armed men, which resulted in the killing of all the six militants.
Khalid Aziz, a Pakistani security expert, writes on his blog A Voice from Peshawar that these are important developments.
Today, the tribesmen are holding jirgas in Salarzai and other places against the militants. They have forced the militants to evacuate their areas since they are accused of bringing pain to the residents of Bajaur.... Thus a situation has arisen where the ascendency of the radicals has seen challenges for the first time by the communities with only marginal government assistance.
It is unclear what impact, if any, the lashkars will have on the fighting. But many fear that they will lose backing and momentum now that the central government has called for a one-month cease-fire with the militants in observance of Ramadan, the Muslim month of religious fasting, reports The New York Times.
On Saturday night, the Pakistani government declared a cease-fire in the area for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins here on Wednesday.
The cease-fire prompted concerns that whatever gains had been made against militants in the region would be squandered. Khalid Aziz, a former chief secretary of the North-West Frontier Province, said the Taliban would use the opportunity to regroup.
"Some communities have risen up against the militants, and the government has to capitalize on this, has to prop them up," he said. "They haven't done it."


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Whats is Yappye?
" Yappye " Is a E-commerce Template, from design Simple, Flat and Clean. If you love the Clean and Simple Design will allow you to create your Perfect online Store.
There are 6 PSD, the layers of all PSD's are good organized and renamed, allowing customization and image replacement very simple, also thanks to the Smart Objects.
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The environment supports a wide range of tools which can help you to work on your Lisp source code more quickly and efficiently. This section gives you a brief introduction to the most important tools.
You can create any of the tools described here by choosing the appropriate command from the Tools menu.
For full details about any of these tools, see the relevant chapter. The second part of this manual covers each of the tools in the order that they are found on the Tools menu.
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Editor's note: This is a guest post by HubPages CEO Paul Edmondson. Prior to founding HubPages, Edmondson was part of the executive team at MongoMusic, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2000, and held group management positions at MSN Entertainment over product management, quality management, operations, and business management.
Search engines are a critical part of the democratization of the Web and none is more important than Google. They provide the critical gateway to information in a meritocratic way that has traditionally rewarded usefulness and quality over name recognition of the content creator, valuing the utility to the searcher over all else.
In parallel, open publishing platforms have provided free tools for creating and sharing information with topical expertise and a voice to anyone on the Web. These platforms feed the search engines and, in return, the search engines have delivered steady audiences. This ecosystem has been lucrative for the search engines, an essential outlet for the information sharers, and a great way for the world to have access to a broad swathe of information, from the full range of political opinions to thousands of ways to barbecue a chicken.
Google's recent "Panda" update intentionally upends this ecosystem; it doesn't just lower the rankings of individual pages that the algorithm deems "low quality" (however that may be defined by Google) but, as Google has said publicly, "low-quality [page] content [on the domain] can impact an entire domain." This means that high-quality content hosted on open publishing platforms like HubPages and YouTube can be negatively impacted in their search rankings simply by hosting contributions of various quality on a single site.
HubPages has seen a negative impact from this change, but so far YouTube has not (Search Metrics Winners). One presumes Google isn't treating its own affiliated sites differently than any other site, but YouTube's open publishing environment makes low-quality content as prevalent as on any other moderated open publishing platform. Google shows over 13 million indexed videos on YouTube for lose weight (known spammy area) and over 10 million for forex (another spammy area). Apparently, Google's Panda update has been punitive only to platforms other than Google's.
We certainly support and encourage changes to algorithms to provide the public with access to the best search results. We appreciate that open publishing platforms with a wide range of content quality also have a responsibility to moderate their content appropriately. While we understand the need for ordering search results, we also think it is a mistake to broadly impact an entire domain negatively where the content has been contributed by individual people. Bear in mind that a lot of the content on open
publishing platforms like HubPages and YouTube is great, and it is exactly what people are searching for on the Web.
We have reached out to Google seeking feedback and guidance about what elements of an open platform are being penalized by Panda. There has been little response to our inquiries, from questions about site architecture posted on the official Google forums, to personal emails sent to Matt Cutts, the head of web spam at Google.
We, as well as many other operators, are happy to engage in a dialogue with Google on what quality means and how to educate information sharers. It seems that publishing platforms that
are not operated by Google are at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to guidance on how to adjust to this latest search algorithm update, as is exemplified by YouTube's apparent immunity.
Before Panda, Google gave open platforms of all sizes many ways to separate high quality content from poor content without chilling an entire domain. In this respect, HubPages most closely resembles YouTube's site structure. We send Google signals by how we program the site. For example, we let Google know what we think is the best content by giving that content more internal links from related pages. We also follow the sitemap protocol and give content a crawling priority. It seems these efforts are severely discounted after the Panda update since, despite their application, there is still a domain-wide devaluing being applied.
We are concerned that Google is targeting platforms other than its own and stifling competition by reducing viable platform choices simply by diminishing platforms' ability to rank pages. Google is not being transparent about their new standards, which prevents platforms like ours from having access to a level playing field with Google's own services. We want to comply with and exceed Google's standards. Google has my contact information. Hope to hear from them soon.


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I found some bugs when I did this test but the reporting was to complicated.
If you have ideas or suggestions on how to improve it, I'd be interested in hearing that.
Also, I have some very basic scripts which help with automatically identifying i915_error_states traces and map them into known issues. When I finish them, I'll be certain to post here a guide on how to use them. This should help at least in the initial issue identification I suppose..
Since the new gpus come from a third party there is poor opensource support, is there any plan to fix this introducing new intel gpus that could be supported?
The GPUs which come with closed-source drivers are licensed from PowerVR, and the license does not allows to open-source their support as far as I know...
Are you saying that Ivy Bridge and subsequent GPUs are expected to be fully usable at introduction going forward?
The definition of "usable" is very subjective though. I've been using intel GPUs far before I jointed Intel, and I never had much usability problems except for the i810 line of GPUs. But of course, it changes for everyone - some people expect to play more games, some use more media decoding...
One possible objective criteria would be the number of issues in open-source bugzilla (namely, freedesktop.org one). For Ivy Bridge, at this moment, we don't have any critical issues which do not have a solution. At the same time, there are bugs for some sort of misrendering in some applications or non-passing piglit tests. If it affects the usability of your workloads it is hard to say; but it is all open for everyone to check via bugzilla, and verify if the intended use cases are expected to work without any problems or it is possible to expect any sort of issues. It is all public and open for everyone - this is how open-source works .
1) What exactly is RC6?
2) Why does it repeatedly turn out to be non-functional? Is it some unforeseen incompatibility on Intel's side? Are there some BIOS bugs to work around?
3) Can we expect universal support for RC6 (and/or semaphores) in the future?
2) Why does it repeatedly turn out to be non-functional? Is it some unforeseen incompatibility on Intel's side? Are there some BIOS bugs to work around?
3) Can we expect universal support for RC6 (and/or semaphores) in the future?
(Most of my knowledge about this matter comes from http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/611 which is the best non low-level resource I found about such details)..
As for RC6 support and problems, here is a short overview.
RC6 is a technology which allows GPU to go to a very low power consumption state when GPU is idle (down to 0V), so it results in a considerable power saving when this stage is activated. When comparing under idle loads with machine state where rc6 is disabled, we can get up to 40-60% improved power usage.
As a bonus, when those states are reached, we have additional thermal and power space for both CPU and GPU to go into a more aggressive turbo mode, so it can also improve the performance of intensive workloads by around 10%, and a bit more in some cases. Michael was the first one to publicly observe this in his RC6 overviews on phoronix by the way (thanks a lot, again!).
To exemplify, on battery power, when your machine is idle, it uses 50% less power. And when you run a CPU/GPU intensive application (for example, openarena), it gets additional +10 fps under load.
However, in some hardware and software configurations this power state results in unexpected issues (such as hangs or graphics corruptions). One co-related situation when you are almost certainly can expect issues is when you have VTd enabled (e.g., intel_iommu != off kernel parameter). Most of all our reports related to rc6 were traced down to this, but we don't have an explanation of why this is causing issues.
With 3.2-rc6, we tried to enable rc6 by default for the kernel, but it was quickly had to be reverted, as it turned out that in some cases we still have random crashes and hangs. The down side of this is that we don't know at the moment what is causing those issues, as only very few users has reported this problem, and, like always with rc6-related issues, none of Intel employees computers can reproduce said issues for now. So hopefully, if we discover what causes the problem there, we'll be able to workaround it just like we did with VTd, and enable it by default for Sandy Bridge on 3.3 kernel.
In general, if you do not experience random hangs and graphics corruptions when rc6 is enabled - I mean, issues which you haven't seen previously, you shouldn't have any issues with it at all. But if you do, we'll be very interested in hearing about it, because we are on a quest to locate machines which can reliably reproduce rc6-related problems. But so far, I'd say that around 99% of all machines should "just work" with it enable.
About rc6 support on different generations of Intel GPUs, here is the short resume:
For Ironlake (e.g., Intel Core i - pre-sandy machines), rc6 is disabled by default in all cases as it can cause similar issues as well, but can be activated by the same kernel parameter. On my Acer TimelineX, the enablement of rc6 makes its battery last 9 hours instead of 6 (powertop reports 7.5W when idle, down from 11W without rc6 enabled manually), and it causes no advert issues, but the mileage may vary between Ironlake GPUs.
On Sandy Bridge, right now it is always disabled as well by default. On my Lenovo T420 (sandy bridge), powertop reports around 12.5W with rc6 enabled, and around 19.5W with rc6 disabled.
For older graphics cards, this parameter makes no difference as kernel ignores it.
I hope it clarifies the things a bit .
As for expectation for an universal support for rc6 and semaphores, "there is always hope for the future as tainted by past experiences" ( (c) Chris Wilson)
4) Whereas Intel's integrated graphics are not really competitive in the performance segment, they are vastly ahead regarding power efficiency. Can we expect further driver improvement in that regard?
5) Will we get S3TC?
When can we expect OpenGL 3.3 support on Sandy Bridge?
When do you expect to have OpenGL 4.2 support on Ivy Bridge?
When do you expect to have OpenGL 4.2 support on Ivy Bridge?
As for GL 4.2, it is too early to say anything. Of course, the Mesa team is interested in supporting all the latest and greatest GL versions in full, but I cannot answer when it will happen at the moment.


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As one of the eight ski resorts in Les 3 Vallees (The Three Valleys) resorts, and highest in elevation, Val Thorens guarantees an unforgettable France ski vacation. The only way to truly appreciate the size and scope of this area is to compare it to the biggest North American resorts. Take Whistler, Mammoth, Squaw, Jackson Hole, and then throw in Vail and maybe Killington and Breckenridge, and you'd still have room left over in Les 3 Vallees.
With infinite terrain and the most sophisticated interconnected lift system in Europe, you could spend a lifetime exploring the limitless peaks and valleys, sampling all the delicious food at the fine French restaurants, and cruising through tiny villages without ever having to take off your skis. But of all of Les 3 Vallees resorts Val Thorens is the one you really want to ski at. As the highest ski resort in the Alps, over 10,500-plus feet, Val Thorens is magnet for snow. So be sure to bring your fat skis or powder board.
Val Thorens offers a pleasant, laid-back base village experience, with plenty of lodging options, namely ski in, ski out accommodations, and an overwhelming amount of off-mountain activities from tennis to squash to roller hockey, badminton, volleyball, swimming and indoor football (soccer). All thanks to an immense indoor sports complex.
As the highest ski area of the largest ski resort in the world, you can bet that Val Thorens offers some of the best advanced skiing on the planet. La Masse and Cime Caron areas provide more challenging runs and wide-open above treeline solitude. This is the best on-piste area if there's fresh snow. Intermediates can ski or board nearly everywhere due to the many blue and red runs, in fact some of Val Thorens blacks are great runs for advanced intermediates to challenge themselves.
Beginners, especially first-timers will especially enjoy the gentle slopes at the bottom of the resort. The magic carpet is a complimentary service. And because of the resorts high-Alpine location, beginners at Val Thorens enjoy better conditions than others.
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Praise for Dog Diaries:An Amazon Best Book of the Month!A Barnes & Noble Top Book of the Month!
"Junior is a dog of great enthusiasm [with an] endearingly canine first-dog voice. Watson's numerous cartoon illustrations... perfectly capture Junior's whimsical attitude...This series opener is a romp in the park."
—Kirkus Reviews
"Bolstered by Watson's spry cartoons, Patterson and Butler's rollicking story will catch--and hold--the attention of young readers, especially those of the dog-loving variety."
—Publisher's Weekly
"Patterson's tongue-in-cheek humor, accompanied by Butler's comic illustrations, makes this illustrated chapter book a lighthearted 'dog and his boy' story for dog-lovers and fans of Tom Watson's Stick Dog series."
Dog Diaries
A Middle School Story
The first book in the doggone awesome, howl-ariously illustrated, bestselling series from the creator of Middle School! Rafe Khatchadorian's lovable dog Junior gets his chance to shine.
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! I've been waiting for ages to tell my story, and now it's finally happening! Being Rafe's dog isn't always easy, but it is always EXCITING! I've got so much to tell you about:
- How I protect the yard from birds, raccoons, squirrels, raccoons, mail carriers … and did I mention RACCOONS?
- Sniffing pooch posteriors for the latest canine news.
- And the terrifying monster hiding in the hall closet: the vacuum cleaner!
These were all the most paw-some parts of my doggie life — until the evil Mrs. Stricker threatened to send me back to the pound if I didn't learn to behave. Now Rafe and I have to go to obedience school and win the trophy for Best Trained Dog . . . or else!


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Hanging with Yahoo Motherboard and Yahoo Shine
Years ago when I realized I could not use my work email for personal use - I set up a Yahoo email address. I still use Yahoo Mail and view my RSS feeds via myYahoo page. So when Yahoo created a Mother Board program for outreach to mom bloggers, and I excited to participate.
The first Mother Board Summit was mid-July, I was excited to see the fellow Motherboard members, meet the engaging Yahoo team and connect with a brand that I am already a power user of - to learn more about their applications and properties.
As I de-brief from my trip to BlogHer10 in NYC August 6-7, I can't help but think of the fun I also had connecting with my fellow Motherboard members at conference and spending time at the Yahoo Shine booth.
The theme of the Yahoo Shine booth at BlogHer was "re-invention" - with videos discussing how women re-invented themselves displayed on screens as well as live video interviews being filmed at the booth to share more re-invention stories. I decided to share my own re-invention story with a video interview. Lucky for me, they had a makeup section and artist to help touch up my makeup before I went on. I had been in a hurry that morning at BlogHer10 and did not put my contacts in - so I needed some makeup "re-invention"!.
After I recieved the make-up "intervention" I was ready to discuss my career intervention. Jumping off the "Partner" career track as a Senior Manager at Deloitte to have my twins (I already had an older son) was a hard choice. I always felt that becoming a mom was the right choice - I just could not find the right work/life balance after I went back to work with my first child. I began blogging as a career 2.0 and online social networking to build a new professional network, which I could do on a flexible schedule (and the second shift - which is after the kids go to sleep). Then I did lots of hard work to build an new online brand (TechMama) - all of which helped me re-invent myself professionally. Here is my Yahoo Shine reinvention video:
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"The devil, the proud spirit, cannot endure to be mocked." -- Thomas More
Dictators run some countries, and dictators run some families. Dictators can even be found running some churches. What the tyrants have in common is a hatred of the sound of laughter. Rather than indulge in laughter, they indulge in what G.K. Chesterton calls "the anger of the idle kings."
For proud spirits live in fear that the joke is on them.
Which, of course, it is: on them, and on us. To be human is to fall, to slip on the banana peels that line our paths. We fall down and get up and fall down again. We walk out of bathrooms trailing ribbons of toilet paper. We forget to zip up and tuck in and scrape the spinach off our teeth. Our bodies are engineered to make noises so silly they constitute high comedy on the schoolyard playground. Our survival as a people is ensured only by the wholesale assumption of ridiculous postures.
We lose our tempers and our dignity and our way. We misspeak, misstep and mess up. If we live long enough, we end the way we began, wearing diapers and eating baby food, waiting for someone to change and feed us. Pretty funny, when you think about how much time we spend protecting our dignity, our appearance and our position.
The dictator's goal is to be recognized as God, even if God over only this little house, that small nation, or the most modest parish. Dictators work hard at building and maintaining the illusion of godhood. Laughter destroys the illusion.
I remember a night years ago when my father was as angry as he was drunk. He resolved to go up to the bedroom he shared with my mother and lock -- really lock -- the door. He would show us. To that end, he grabbed a hammer and a can of nails. He weaved his way up the stairs, yelling at us that we would no longer be able to make his life a living hell, or words to that effect.
My father slammed the door. Soon, we heard the sounds of nails being hammered into the doorframe, mingled with the sounds of the hammer missing the nails and hitting the wood.
Now my parents' bedroom was a large single space above the two-car garage. I don't think the builder planned it as a bedroom, since it had neither closets nor an adjoining bath. Its primary virtue as a bedroom was its distance from mine.
The evening had been long and loud. My mother and I were tired. We stood silently at the bottom of the stairs, listening to the sounds of wood splintering above us.
I was about to turn and go to bed when my mother gestured towards the stairs and drawled, "Un-huh. Just wait till he needs to pee."
A beat, then I started to laugh. My mother started to laugh. We looked at one another and began to howl, full out eyes-watering, nose-running, snorting laughter.
I don't remember how long we laughed that night, but I do remember how the gloom evaporated and the power of my father's wrath was destroyed. I think it was the image of my father pulling out the nails, one by one, in a race against time (not to mention his bowels and bladder) that dispelled the sense of his power.
Free men and women laugh. They laugh because they know who they are, and who they are is not God, upper or lower case. Indeed, laughter may be the surest way to know and acknowledge one's place in the cosmos, one's place as creature and not creator.
In "A Hymn for the Church Militant," G.K. Chesterton gives a glimpse of right and holy order, an order that includes a prayer for "the firm feet of humility," and concludes with a prayer for the gift of laughter:
Cleanse us from ire of creed or
The anger of the idle kings;
Sow in our souls, like living
The laughter of all lowly
[Melissa Musick Nussbaum is an NCR columnist who lives in Colorado Springs, Colo.]


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Hi, I'm the Feel-good Librarian and I'm honored to be your guest poster for today. I'm a faithful reader of TTW. Although my library doesn't use all the technologies that are talked about here, TTW is my line to learning about them, thinking about how we COULD use them and using some of them myself.
That said, anyone who reads my blog knows that for me, people are first. Customer service is my thing. Technology is cool because it takes the library where the patrons are. It improves customer service by giving us more interaction points. It gives patrons the tools to find and use information in ways that are personal and meaningful as well as efficient and cutting edge.
But librarians must be well-rounded. Sometimes, technology isn't the answer. Some patrons don't need a machine or a program, they need a person – and it's you.
I was at the desk with a coworker on Friday. A homeless man was standing completely still, staring at us. "Can I help you?" I asked.
He finally unfroze and walked over to the desk, took off his sunglasses, and held out his hand to my colleague. "Jeremiah," he said, and started to spell it. "J – E – R…"
"John," my colleague said, taking his hand.
"John the Baptist in the desert sand," Jeremiah said.
"That's right," John said.
"The river Jordan is deep and still," Jeremiah went on.
"What can we do for you, Jeremiah?" John asked.
"I am a troubled individual," he said.
"But how can WE help you?" John said.
"Bless me!" Jeremiah commanded.
"Bless you!" John said immediately.
Jeremiah started to laugh and then to dance in front of the desk, his feet and arms moving wildly. When he was still, he said, "See? That's all I needed." And he turned and walked out the front door.
All I did was stand there and smile. He scared me.
John turned to me and said, "Sometimes I miss my old job. That was the kind of interaction I had all day, every day."
Did I mention that John used to work at Psychiatric Center? He was comfortable, efficient and sent a satisfied patron on his way. And he enjoyed the experience.
I have to say it: some days, it's just not about the machine.


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A couple of weeks ago, My friend Missy and I went to Kenner, La. to tour an old plantation home. We always tour plantations in Natchez, Ms. so this time she decided that we should go to Louisiana for a change. This home is called Destrehan. It was built in 1787. To me it wasn't as grand or as pretty as some of the homes that we have toured but it was interesting. I love looking back into the past and seeing how people lived back then. This home has been changed some from when it was originally built. In 1840, the new owner's remodeled it in the Greek Revival style. In 1864, the Union Army took it over and established the Rost Home Colony where newly freed slaves learned trades.
These tall towers on each side of the home were used to keep pigeons. They raised them for food.
Looking up at the river banks...our beautiful flags.


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• urbane •
Pronunciation: êr-bayn • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Suave, polite, sophisticated, refined in manner and manners.
Notes: This is a straight-forward word with no pitfalls to look out for, so long as you do not confuse it with urban, an adjective meaning "related to the city or cities". These two are historically related (see the Word History); however, all that is urban is not urbane. (Even though much of what is suburban is sub-urbane.) This word has a strong family: urbanely is the adverb and urbaneness, the noun; however, a more urbane noun for this adjective is urbanity.
In Play: This once was a word used to distinguish the educated city folk from the uneducated hicks and hayseeds in the country. Today it is a good word for distinguishing the manners and tastes that come with education, travel, and subscribing to the right daily word service: "Strom Bowley's travels have made him an urbane commentator on Italian cuisine." Of course, urbanity has its limits: "Portia Radclyffe avoids fast-food restaurants, where her urbane mannerisms impress no one."
Word History: Today's word came to us from Latin urbanus "pertaining to the city". Already in Latin it was associated with wealth and education and also meant "refined, polished, elegant". The Latin adjective comes from urbs "city", about which we know precious little. However, as you can see, the idea behind the English slang words, citified and city-slicker, has an ancient history. The association of cities with sophistication is not unrelated to the association of farmers, who live in the country, with the lack of sophistication.
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Mets 6, Cardinals 1
Jonathon Niese's elevated heart rate is the only problem a Mets pitcher has run into lately.
Niese struck out a career-high 10 in six scoreless innings before he was pulled as a precaution and New York shut down the slumping St. Louis Cardinals for the third straight game, getting a homer and three RBIs from rookie Kirk Nieuwenhuis in a 6-1 victory Sunday night.
Niese matched a career high with two hits and said his heart ''started racing'' after he singled and scored on Nieuwenhuis' homer in the fourth. He had the same issue during an outing in Texas last season and wore a heart monitor afterward on the bench in Detroit. But tests checked out fine and the left-hander hasn't had any such problems since.
''It's kind of like a huge adrenaline rush,'' Niese explained. ''I kept feeling the heart racing at the end. I said to myself, `I went out and pitched six scoreless innings, that is enough, don't do anything stupid.'''
Niese had an EKG during his spring training physical and everything came back fine. He will have more tests Monday, manager Terry Collins said, but Niese insisted he's not worried.
''Not really, because I felt it before and it's not an issue,'' he said. ''It started in the fourth inning, but then it went away.''
Andres Torres added a two-run triple and threw out a runner at the plate from center field. He finished a homer shy of the cycle. Nieuwenhuis, batting leadoff, also had three hits.
Niese (4-2) became the latest New York pitcher to dominate the Cardinals, following Johan Santana's no-hitter in the series opener Friday night - the first in Mets history - and knuckleballer R.A. Dickey's seven-hit shutout Saturday.
''I chart every one of Johan's games. I watched him attack hitters, establish his fastball in - that is what I tried to do today,'' Niese said. ''I think I had a good release point today with my curveball.''
The only thing that prevented the Cardinals from being blanked in three consecutive games for the first time since October 1976 was a two-out RBI single by Adron Chambers in the eighth off Elvin Ramirez, who was making his major league debut.
That snapped New York's scoreless streak at 25 innings and ended St. Louis' drought at 26 innings dating to Wednesday's 10-7 loss at Atlanta. The Cardinals have lost five straight and eight of 10 to fall back to .500 at 27-27.
''We ran into some pretty good pitching. We ran into some at-bats that I think some guys would like to have back,'' manager Mike Matheny said. ''It's just one of those runs. The only way to get out of it is to work.''
Thanks to some stellar pitching, the surging Mets (31-23) are headed in the opposite direction. They have won seven of nine and 10 of 14 to move eight games over .500 for the first time since July 2010. The latest victory pulled them within percentage points of first-place Washington in the NL East.
''They should be very proud of where they are,'' Collins said. ''This is the best atmosphere I have been around in a long time.''
Mets starters are 7-0 with a 1.38 ERA dating to May 25.
Carlos Beltran's first trip to Citi Field since the Mets traded him to San Francisco last summer hasn't included much offense. The Cardinals were the top-hitting team in the National League when they arrived, but they sure haven't showed it.
''It's a little bit of everything. I think they're pitching great. We're not hitting the ball, we're not getting on base,'' Beltran said. ''Right now it seems like things are not going our way even though our mentality and our focus is there.''
Not wanting to take any chances, Collins pulled Niese after 96 pitches - 70 strikes. Four relievers completed the eight-hitter as St. Louis stranded 12 runners.
Lucas Duda hit an RBI single off Jake Westbrook (4-5) in the first and Nieuwenhuis drove an 0-2 pitch to right-center for a two-run homer in the fourth. Niese was aboard after a two-out single.
It appeared the Cardinals were finally poised to score in the sixth, but Torres threw out World Series MVP David Freese at the plate on Chambers' two-out single.
''That does take a little wind out of your sails,'' Matheny said.
Nieuwenhuis added an RBI single in the sixth and Torres greeted Maikel Cleto with a two-run triple to make it 6-0. After that, the only drama that remained was whether the Cardinals could actually push across a run.
NOTES: Mets RHP Dillon Gee (4-3, 4.69 ERA) was moved up a day to start Monday's series finale on his regular four days of rest. Kyle Lohse (5-1, 3.36 ERA) goes for the Cardinals as they try to avoid a four-game sweep. ... Collins said RHP Chris Young will be called up to start Tuesday night at Washington, with RHP Miguel Batista coming off the disabled list to back him up. Young missed most of last season because of shoulder surgery but re-signed with the Mets and has been working his way back in the minors. ... Former closer and team captain John Franco was inducted into the Mets' Hall of Fame during a 35-minute ceremony on the field before the game.


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Beyond the obvious historical significance of his last gig, the music is spectacular.
Alvin Lee
The Last Show
On March 6, 2013, the world lost one of its premier musical talents with the passing of Alvin Lee. As fate would have it, Lee's final show—a performance in Raalte, Holland—was recorded for posterity and is now available.
Beyond the obvious historical significance of The Last Show, the music is spectacular, with Lee displaying the same mastery of his instrument that made people first take notice so many years ago. Lee covers multiple genres: rockabilly on "My Baby Left Me," blues on "I Don't Give a Damn," and funk-rock with "Love Like a Man."
Perhaps the most poignant—and adept—cuts are the two songs Lee performed with Ten Years After on that fabled Woodstock stage in 1969: "Going Home" and "I Can't Keep from Crying Sometimes." It's a fantastic performance nearly devoid of post-production touchups—fitting for an artist who created and played so honestly.
Must-hear track: "I Can't Keep from Crying Sometimes"


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The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued its first judgment today – a milestone in the path towards accountability.
In the judgment today, the judges found that Thomas Lubanga was the president of the militia group known as the Union of Congolese Patriots/Patriotic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (UPC/FPLC) in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo during the non-international armed conflict from September 2002 to August 14, 2003.
The judgment makes several landmark findings. The charges concerned conscripting, enlisting, and using children in armed conflict. The fact that the first ICC judgment concerns child soldiers shines a further spotlight on the need to protect vulnerable groups at risk during war. The ICC built upon the jurisprudence from prior UN courts such as the Special Court for Sierra Leone in finding that the crime of using child soldiers is committed as soon as the child joins the armed group—"with or without compulsion." This sets a high threshold prohibiting any use of children in fighting forces, even when families or children themselves may appear to support the child's involvement due to the coercive circumstances of armed conflict.
Similarly, the judgment established a high threshold for the protection of children who have an "indirect" role, such as children who may be forced to conduct domestic duties or general support activities that may not include taking up arms. The judges found that, in such circumstances, the question is whether the child has been exposed to "real danger as a potential target." As a result, the judges found that both the "child's support and this level of consequential risk" meant that a child could be actively involved in hostilities even if she or he was absent from the immediate scene of the conflict.
The judges also paid particular attention to the experience of girl soldiers. The prosecutor had not specifically charged sexual violence and rape. During the trial, the appeals chamber rejected an attempt by the victims participating in the case to amend the charges to include gender crimes. However, in the course of presenting evidence, witnesses raised the use of girls in domestic work and the abuse of girls and women as sex slaves. This underscores the ever-prevalent risk of sexual violence during conflict and the need for vigilance in investigating all potential crimes, particularly crimes against women.
It is monumental that victims, including former child soldiers, were able to be involved directly in the trial. The International Criminal Court was the first such court to include victim participation in its Statute. During the course of the trial, 129 victims participated by making submissions to the judges, by seeking to introduce evidence, and by questioning witnesses. Three victims themselves testified as witnesses.
Concerns were raised in the judgment regarding the prosecution's "lack of proper oversight" over their work with intermediaries. Intermediaries are non-Court staff who may cooperate with the Court in implementing various aspects of its work, and may potentially include people such as aid workers or local human rights monitors who are familiar with the local environment. They have assisted the ICC on a range of matters, including assisting victims to participate in proceedings, and judges in other cases at the ICC have been "mindful of the importance of their role." It makes sense that an international court based outside the country under investigation—one covering all 120 countries who have accepted the Court's jurisdiction and running 15 cases in seven countries—needs assistance from local people or organizations. Intermediaries facilitate activities such as locating or communicating with witnesses or victims particularly in settings without mobile phone coverage or transportation access.
In the judgment issued today, however, the judges found that the prosecutor "should not have delegated its investigative responsibilities to the intermediaries as analyzed in the judgment, notwithstanding the extensive security difficulties that it faced." The judges indicated that three prosecution intermediaries may themselves have committed a crime under the ICC Statute by potentially facilitating witnesses in giving false evidence. The evidence derived from interaction with these intermediaries was therefore excluded from consideration.
The Court has learned many lessons and last year compiled a draft set of guidelines on intermediaries. These draft guidelines are currently pending finalization by the Court and consideration by the countries that have accepted the ICC's jurisdiction, known as the Assembly of States Parties. The Open Society Justice Initiative strongly urges the Court and the State Parties to act upon the lessons learned following the Lubanga judgment by adopting the guidelines on Intermediaries at the next session of Assembly of States Parties this November.
From here, the Court now moves into the sentencing and reparations stages. After the judgment is translated into French for the defense, a separate sentencing hearing will take place. The judges have also requested submissions from the prosecution, defense, and victims regarding how consideration of potential reparations ought to be conducted. This will be the first time the issue of reparations is addressed at the ICC.


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Remember the days when you listened to Feeder, Ash or The Subways and thought they were THE BEST THING EVER? Not just a stepping stone towards The Replacements, The Ramones and other more 'respectable' ilk but wholly original outfits who condensed a perennially optimistic release of teenage angst into three minute 30 second snippets of pop perfection.
You Animals make me feel like they may well be THE BEST THING EVER too. Of course in the cold light of day this Derbyshire-based six piece aren't worthy of such hyperbole, but for the 50 minute duration of their debut LP you'll be damned to hear me saying anything to the contrary.
I write this review in the absence of said sugar coated indie rock, hence there are a few negative aspects of Crimes, Creeps & Thrills worth mentioning.
It contains a song entitled 'Every Day Is Like A Friday Night' which when you really think about it, is still a complete crock of shit. Lead singer Ryan Needham cannot, unless in instances of extreme rarity, leave room in a track where his fervent holler doesn't feature through the dual strategy of elongating his vowels to riiiiiiiiiiiidiculous extents or inserting festival-friendly cries of "woah woah" or "badda ba badda" to fill the gaps.
Furthermore, several tracks are bookended by unnecessary stabs at ambient interlude which only serve to make you wish You Animals would bloody well get on with it and deliver their next could-be single. And what a catalogue they have to choose from: 'What A Shame Lorraine' bristles with all the energy its endearingly silly chorus line affords it; 'Halfway To Heartbreak' grates spiky six string over deliriously squelching synth; 'Western Stab' makes a decent fist of lovelorn sentiment. This stuff is seemingly made for Radio 1's summertime playlist as was.
Certainly a line like "communicate, communicate for the first time always" ('Communicate') is never going to whip up a crowd of avid chin-strokers into unbridled applause, but for those still in touch with their 14 year-old selves, Crimes, Creeps & Thrills is a gateway to those halcyon days. As the instant gratification of 'What You Know/What You Need' dictates, why have a verse when you can write two choruses? Why not go one step further and pen your own theme song in the shape of 'Theme From You Animals'? Why not have fun?
Once set in that mindset, the revelation that You Animals are THE BEST THING EVER should come as no great shock. They are, after all, supremely accomplished at stirring the base emotions into an electrifying rush of naive glee.
Yet that feeling of rekindled youth doesn't last forever and by the time their second album arrives, You Animals will have to make some play for the territory of prolonged aural satisfaction. For the moment though, I'm siding with my former spotty, bespectacled self in saying Crimes, Creeps & Thrills is so good, it even ranks on a par with Hard-Fi's Stars Of CCTV.
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Katakolon, or Katakolo is a seaside town in the municipality of Pyrgos in western Elis, Greece. It is situated on a headland overlooking the Ionian Sea and separating the Gulf of Kyparissia from the rest of the Ionian. It is 11 km west of downtown Pyrgos. The small village of Agios Andreas, which in ancient times was the natural harbour for Ancient Olympia, lies northwest of Katakolo. A railway connects Katakolo with Pyrgos and Olympia, but along with the rest of the rail network in the Peloponnese, services have been suspended since 2011 for economic reasons.
Venice is a city in northeastern Italy sited on a group of 118 small islands separated by canals and linked by bridges. The city is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture, and its artwork. The city in its entirety is listed as a World Heritage Site, along with its lagoon. Venice has been known as the La Dominante, Serenissima, Queen of the Adriatic, City of Water, City of Masks, City of Bridges, The Floating City, and City of Canals. It has also been described as being one of Europe's most romantic cities. It is truly an amazing, stunning and interesting city for the adventurous to explore!
Corfu, an island off Greece's northwest coast in the Ionian Sea, is defined by rugged mountains and a resort-studded shoreline. Nicknamed ''the island of the Phaeacians'', Corfu is home to the Ionian University. Known also as Kerkyra, is the northernmost of the Ionian Islands in Greece. Located off of the far northwest coast of the country, Corfu lies in the Adriatic sea, east of Italy and southwest of Albania. Historically Corfu has been controlled by many foreign powers, notably the Venetians, French, and British.
Mykonos is a Greek island, part of the Cyclades, lying between Tinos, Syros, Paros and Naxos. The island spans an area of 85.5 km2 (33 sq mi) and rises to an elevation of 341 m (1,119 ft) at its highest point. The island is composed primarily of granite. It has little natural fresh water and relies on the desalination of sea water in order to meet the needs of its population. There are 9,320 inhabitants (2001) most of whom live in the largest town, Mykonos, also known as Chora, which lies on the west coast. Mykonos is one of the most cosmopolitan islands in Greece, known for its diverse and intense nightlife as evidenced by a vast number of bars and nightclubs. Mykonos is also known for its beaches. The island has an international airport, and is a frequent destination for cruise ships.


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Conoclinium coelestinum
Conoclinium coelestinum (L.) DC.
Blue Mistflower, Wild Ageratum, Blue Boneset
Asteraceae (Aster Family)
Synonym(s): Eupatorium coelestinum
USDA Symbol: coco13
USDA Native Status: L48 (N), CAN (I?)
Mistflower grows to 3 feet high, but often lower, with leaves opposite, somewhat triangular in shape, and bluntly toothed. At the top of the plant the branches, with their short-stemmed clusters of flowers, form an almost flat top. Disc flowers are bright blue or violet, about 1/4 inch long. There are no ray flowers.
Blue Mistflower attracts bees and butterflies. However, this wildflower spreads quickly and can become a pest.
Plant Characteristics
Duration: PerennialHabit: Herb
Size Notes: Up to about 3 feet tall.
Leaf: Green
Fruit: Fruit is a cypsela (pl. cypselae). Though technically incorrect, the fruit is often referred to as an achene.
Bloom Information
Bloom Color: Blue , PurpleBloom Time: Jul , Aug , Sep , Oct , Nov
USA: AL , AR , DC , DE , FL , GA , IL , IN , KS , KY , LA , MD , MI , MO , MS , NC , NE , NJ , NY , OH , OK , PA , SC , TN , TX , VA , WVNative Distribution: NJ to s. IL & e. KS, s. to FL & TX
Native Habitat: Wood margins; stream banks; low woods; wet meadows; ditches
Growing Conditions
Water Use: MediumLight Requirement: Sun , Part Shade
Soil Moisture: Moist
CaCO3 Tolerance: Medium
Soil Description: Moist loam, sand, or clay.
Conditions Comments: Blue mistflower is good as a border plant or as a colonizing groundcover. The fluffy-edged flowers are a magnet for late-season butterflies. It also spreads quickly and can become a pest.
Use Wildlife: This wildflower attracts bees and butterflies.Conspicuous Flowers: yes
Attracts: Birds , Butterflies
Nectar Source: yes
Value to Beneficial Insects
Special Value to Native BeesSupports Conservation Biological Control
This information was provided by the Pollinator Program at The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.
Propagation Material: SeedsDescription: Propagate by root division or by seed. Sow seeds in fall or provide cold stratification. Mist flower can also be propagated by "softwood" cuttings taken in late spring.
Seed Collection: Seeds can be allowed to dry out before sowing.
Seed Treatment: This species requires or benefits from a three month period of cold moist stratification in the refrigerator.
Commercially Avail: yes
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National Wetland Indicator Status
Region: | AGCP | AK | AW | CB | EMP | GP | HI | MW | NCNE | WMVE |
Status: | FAC | FAC | FACW | FACW | FAC |
From the National Organizations Directory
According to the species list provided by Affiliate Organizations, this plant is on display at the following locations:Naval Air Station Kingsville - Kingsville, TX
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - Austin, TX
Delaware Nature Society - Hockessin, DE
Patsy Glenn Refuge, c/o Wimberley Birding Society - Wimberley, TX
Stengl Biological Research Station - Smithville, TX
NPSOT - Austin Chapter - Austin, TX
NPSOT - Williamson County Chapter - Georgetown, TX
Mt. Cuba Center - Hockessin, DE
Wildflower Center Seed Bank
LBJWC-1137 Collected 2007-11-09 in Fort Bend County by Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower CenterBibliography
Bibref 1620 - Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Reprint Edition) (2009) Wasowski, S. with A. WasowskiBibref 318 - Native Texas Plants: Landscaping Region by Region (2002) Wasowski, S. & A. Wasowski
Bibref 248 - Texas Wildflowers: A Field Guide (1984) Loughmiller, C. & L. Loughmiller
Bibref 1294 - The Midwestern Native Garden: Native Alternatives to Nonnative Flowers and Plants An Illustrated Guide (2011) Adelman, Charlotte and Schwartz, Bernard L.
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Research Literature
Reslit 1301 - The common occurrence of incompletely developed pollen of Eupatorium (Compositae : Eupatorieae) (2003) J. J. Skvarla, J. R. Rowley, W. F. Chissoe and P. ...Reslit 1732 - Two new flavones from Eupatorium coelestinum (1979) N. Levan and T. V. C. Pham
Reslit 1778 - Alkaloids of Conoclinium coelestinum (L.) DC., Eupatorium compositifolium Walt., and E. altissimum L.: Isolation of crystalline intermedine from C. coelestinum (1981) W. Herz, P. Kulanthaivel, P. S. Subramanian, C. C....
Reslit 2150 - Synthesis of Eupatorium coelestinum Flavone (1981) D. K. Bhardwaj, A. K. Gupta, R. K. Jain and A. Ran...
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Additional resources
USDA: Find Conoclinium coelestinum in USDA PlantsFNA: Find Conoclinium coelestinum in the Flora of North America (if available)
Google: Search Google for Conoclinium coelestinum
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Revealed: How much your local pub needs to make to stay open
Last year saw a 6pc increase in turnover in card sales for Ireland's pub sector, according to AIB's 2018 Pubs Outlook.
Food was a key driver of growth for the period, with food service in pubs reaching a market size of €982m in 2017, up 3pc year-on-year.
And increasing numbers of Irish publicans are accepting card payments, with some city centre pubs now achieving 80pc of their turnover from credit and debit cards, according to Visa.
However in order to keep their doors open pubs need to be turning over between €8,000 and €13,000 a week, according to Tony Morrissey, MD of Morrissey's, the Dublin-based auctioneering and consultancy firm that specialises in the pub and hotel sector.
"If a pub is not turning over €8,000-€9,000 a week in rural areas, then it's going to be very difficult for them to survive," Mr Morrissey said.
He went on to say that the same is true of pubs in the capital.
"If a pub [in Dublin] is not turning over between €12,000 and €13,000 a week, it's in trouble."
Despite the high level of turnover needed, David McCarthy, head of hospitality & tourism, at AIB Retail & Business Banking maintains that the pub sector in Ireland, which is made up of nearly 7,200 pubs across the country, is performing strongly.
"Strong economic growth, customer sentiment, falling unemployment and a record year for tourism means that the Irish pub sector is performing strongly and there is a sense of optimism within the sector that we haven't seen in many years," Mr McCarthy said.
Despite a decline in visitor numbers from the UK last year, the number of UK visitors visiting pubs in Ireland actually increased during the period.
However the report warned on the level of exposure to UK visitors, and the implications of further sterling devaluations.
"As many of the wholesalers currently import goods cross border, there may be indirect exposure to additional costs coming because of Brexit. This may erode margins for publicans across the country," Mr McCarthy said.
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During August 2010, the People of The State of Missouri approved Proposition C and nullified key parts of "Obamacare." As a matter of constitutional principle, may the People of the States lawfully do this? Or must they submit to every law made by Congress whether it is constitutional or not? Are federal judges the final authority?
I will prove that the States have the Right and the Duty to nullify unconstitutional acts of Congress. The only real question is whether Americans have the Will to reclaim our Constitutional Republic & the Rule of Law, or whether they will submit to the rulership of men who "don't care" what the Constitution says, and who see Obamacare as a way "to control the people".
Will Donald Trump win the 2024 election?
Congress' Powers are Enumerated
1. The U.S. Constitution, which created the federal government, permits Congress to make laws only on those few objects which are listed in the Constitution. The objects on which Congress has authority to make laws applicable throughout our Country are itemized at Art. I, Sec. 8, clauses 1-16 (and in a few of the Amendments).
Since the Federalist Papers are the most authoritative commentary on the true meaning of the Constitution, 1 let us see what those Papers say about the extent of Congress' legislative powers. In Federalist No. 83 (7th para), Alexander Hamilton says:
The plan of the convention declares that the power of Congress …shall extend to certain enumerated cases. This specification of particulars evidently excludes all pretension to a general legislative authority, because an affirmative grant of special powers would be absurd, as well as useless, if a general authority was intended. [boldface mine]
In Federalist No. 39 (3rd para from end), James Madison says:
…the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves to the several States a residuary and inviolable sovereignty over all other objects…[emphasis added]
Our Framers were emphatic that ours is a Constitution of enumerated powers only. In Federalist No. 45 (9th para), Madison says:
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people…[emphasis mine] 3
Do you see? If the Constitution doesn't delegate a power to Congress by listing it in the Constitution, Congress doesn't have that power. It is reserved by the States or the People.
Congress Usurps Power when it makes Laws outside its Enumerated Powers – and such pretended Laws are VOID & NOT VALID.
2. Our Framers understood that civil governments seek to expand power at the expense of the People. And when they do so, their acts are VOID and INVALID! Thus, in Federalist No. 33 (next to last para), Hamilton says:
…But it will not follow …that acts of the large society [the federal government] which are NOT PURSUANT to its constitutional powers, but which are invasions of the residuary authorities of the smaller societies [the States], will become the supreme law of the land. These will be merely acts of usurpation, and will deserve to be treated as such… [caps are Hamilton's; other emphasis mine]
In the last paragraph of No. 33, Hamilton says a law made by Congress which is not authorized by the Constitution,
…would not be the supreme law of the land, but a usurpation of power not granted by the Constitution… [emphasis mine]
In Federalist No. 78 (10th para), Hamilton says:
…every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. [emphasis mine]
Nothing in Art. I, Sec. 8, or elsewhere in the Constitution, authorizes Congress to pass Obamacare! "Medical care" is not an enumerated power. Obamacare is unconstitutional as outside the scope of the legislative powers granted to Congress. 4
Furthermore, the Tenth Amendment forbids Congress to pass Obamacare: When a power is not delegated to the federal government by the Constitution, that power is reserved to the States or to the People. Only the States or the People have power over medical care!
So! Congress passed Obamacare without any constitutional authority to do so, and in violation of the Tenth Amendment. Hence, as Hamilton shows us, Obamacare is "void" and not "valid". It is an act "of usurpation, and will deserve to be treated as such."
Hamilton, Madison & Thomas Jefferson show us that Nullification is the Answer.
3. Hamilton shows in Federalist No. 28 (7th para) that if the federal government invades the rights of the People, they can use the State government as the instrument of redress:
…in a confederacy the people … may be said to be … the masters of their own fate. Power being almost always the rival of power, the general [federal] government will … stand ready to check the usurpations of the state governments, and these will have the same disposition towards the general government. The people, by throwing themselves into either scale, will infallibly make it preponderate. If their rights are invaded by either, they can make use of the other as the instrument of redress…. [emphasis added]
So! When the People of the State of Missouri approved Proposition C nullifying Obamacare, they properly made use of their State government as "the instrument of redress" against the usurpations of Congress & the Executive Branch.
And since State officials and many Citizens have taken the Oath to support the U.S. Constitution (Art. VI, clause 2), it is their SWORN DUTY to nullify – to refuse to obey – unconstitutional and pretended federal "laws", such as Obamacare.
Nullification by States of unconstitutional federal laws is not new. Our beloved Thomas Jefferson (Author of the Declaration of Independence) & James Madison (Father of the U.S. Constitution) show us precisely what States are honor bound to do when Congress makes an unconstitutional law. During 1798, in response to Congress' passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts, the Kentucky and Virginia Legislatures passed Resolutions declaring those Acts unconstitutional as outside the enumerated powers granted to Congress, and as in violation of the Tenth Amendment. In these Resolutions, Kentucky and Virginia resolved not to abide by the federal acts. Jefferson wrote The Kentucky Resolutions, and Madison wrote The Virginia Resolution.
The Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions are masterpieces of constitutional analysis. Study them! States may use them as models for their own Resolutions nullifying the myriad of unconstitutional "laws" which have spewed forth from Congress in recent decades.
The Framers did NOT say States should file Lawsuits and let Federal Judges decide!
4. Think: Why would the States, which formed a Federation for the limited purposes enumerated in Art. I, Sec. 8; ask one branch of the federal government (judiciary) to opine on whether a "law" approved by the two other branches (legislative & executive), exceeds the enumerated powers of Congress and encroaches on the reserved powers of the States and the People (10th Amendment)? All three branches of the federal government have been unified against The Constitution, the States, and the People for a very long time! Why would States put themselves in the position of supplicants to a Court which has already shown itself to be contemptuous of the Constitution, and of the States' and The Peoples' reserved powers?
And further: Can we not see for ourselves that Obamacare is outside the scope of the Legislative Powers granted to Congress in the Constitution, and that it violates the Tenth Amendment? Our Framers certainly did not advocate running to federal judges to let them decide such issues! No, our Framers were men who had guts & backbone and understood the Constitution! So they nullified unconstitutional acts of Congress. 6
Will the American People pass the Test?
5. Will the States and the People surrender to the likes of former DNC Chairman Howard Dean who "doesn't care" if the stuff passed by Congress is unconstitutional? To Democrat Congressman John Dingle who sees Obamacare as a means "to control the people"? Or will The People and the States man up and defend our Constitution?
We have instructions from the Author of the Declaration of Independence, the Father of the Constitution, and the Author of most of the Federalist Papers. They explain what our Constitution really means, and tell us what we need to do when the federal government usurps powers. Listen to them!
They are the highest Authority on the true meaning of our Constitution.
And do not be swept away by rage and lust for revenge. Do not become the murderous, unthinking red-capped mob of the French Revolution.
Let us pray that our eyes be opened, that we listen to the words of wisdom from our Framers, that our spines be stiffened, and that we work for a peaceful political resolution of the dreadful problems facing us.
The federal courts have refused to enforce the Constitution. Congress has failed to impeach & remove usurping federal judges – it has failed to be the "check" on the federal courts. Therefore, WE must enforce the Constitution by means of nullification. WE must be the final "check" on the courts. Study & learn so that you are qualified to do this.
1 At a meeting attended by Thomas Jefferson & James Madison of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia on March 4, 1825, the following resolution selecting texts for the Law school, was passed:
…on the distinctive principles of the government of our own state, and of that of the US. the best guides are to be found in 1. the Declaration of Independence, as the fundamental act of union of these states. 2. the book known by the title of `The Federalist', being an authority to which appeal is habitually made by all, and rarely declined or denied by any as evidence of the general opinion of those who framed, and of those who accepted the Constitution of the US. on questions as to it's genuine meaning…. (Page 83) [emphasis added]
2 See also Federalist No. 14 (8th para) "…the general [federal] government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws. Its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects…"
Federalist No. 27 (last para) "…It merits particular attention in this place, that the laws of the Confederacy [the federal government], as to the ENUMERATED and LEGITIMATE objects of its jurisdiction, will become the SUPREME LAW of the land…Thus the legislatures, courts, and magistrates, of the respective members, will be incorporated into the operations of the national government AS FAR AS ITS JUST AND CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY EXTENDS…" [caps in original]
3 Medicare, Medicaid, social security, etc., are also unconstitutional as outside the scope of the legislative powers granted to Congress. And the programs can't work! As more & more people seek to live at other peoples' expense, the system eventually collapses. That collapse is upon us.
4 Jefferson calls it "nullification"; Madison calls it "interposition". In "interposition", the State "interposes" – steps in between – an usurping federal government and The People. (Webster's 1828 Dictionary.) The result is really the same.
5 Furthermore, the Supreme Court is NOT the ultimate authority on the meaning of the Constitution! Hamilton says federal judges may be impeached for usurpations (Federalist No. 81, 8th para); the People are "the natural guardians of the Constitution" as against federal judges "embarked in a conspiracy with the legislature"; and the People are to become "enlightened enough to distinguish between a legal exercise and an illegal usurpation of authority."(Federalist No.16, next to last para).
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STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — The father of Newtown elementary school shooter Adam Lanza is selling his home in Stamford.
The Stamford Advocate reported that Peter Lanza's house in the city's well-to-do Westover section has an asking price of $710,000.
Listing agency Halstead Properties describes the home as a 2,375-square-foot ranch cape on 1.04 acres of land, with three bedrooms, two-and-a-half bathrooms and a pool in the backyard.
The 54-year-old Lanza and his second wife have lived in the house for about five years.
In December, Adam Lanza shot to death 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School before killing himself as police arrived. He also shot and killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, at their Newtown home before going to the school.
Peter and Nancy Lanza's divorce was finalized in 2009.